Managing Your Intellectual Property

On this Friday’s National Public Radio show “Science Friday”, host Ira Flatow will interview former National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus to discuss the NIH Public Access Policy which went into effect this week.  Varmus is a founder of the Public Library of Science and a proponent of open access to research

In the Ted Talk “Goodbye Textbooks; Hello Open-Source Learning, Richard Baraniuk, engineering professor at Rice University, discusses Connexions, an open-source system to share teaching material and learning objects with educators around the world.

Connexions uses Creative Commons licensing, which enables authors, scientists, artists, and educators to manage their intellectual property by marking it to allow others to use, reuse, or modify their works.

Open Humanities Press (OHP), an open access publisher of contemporary critical and cultural theory, will launch in 2008 as a consortium of leading open access journals in continental philosophy, cultural studies, new media, film, and literary criticism.  The editorial board includes a number of UC faculty as well as N. Katherine Hayles and Douglas Kellner from UCLA.

See Swedish archaeology Martin Rundqvist’s perspective on Sage Publications’ requirement that he cede copyright to it in order to publish in the European Journal of Archaeology in an October 18 entry on the blog Aardvarchaeology.

Sharon Farb has been appointed as the UCLA Library’s new associate university librarian for collection management and scholarly communication.  She has been head of Digital Collection Services for the Library since April 2006 and has worked at the Library in various positions since 1989.  She earned a BS in criminology from UC Berkeley, a JD from Golden Gate University Law School, and an MA and a PhD in information studies from UCLA.